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Performing Science and the Virtual

Performing Science and the Virtual

Author: Sue-Ellen Case (UCLA, USA)
ISBN: 9780415414388
Format: Hardback
$305.00

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The Creative Brain: The Science of Genius

The Creative Brain: The Science of Genius

Author: Nancy Andreasen
ISBN: 9780452287815
Format: Paperback
$39.60

The former editor-in-chief of the American Journal of Psychiatry explores the mysteries of creative genius, using...  Read More >>

Mind Wars: Brain Research and National Defense

Mind Wars: Brain Research and National Defense

Author: Jonathan D. Moreno (University of Pennsylvania)
ISBN: 9781932594164
Format: Hardback
$63.23

In his fascinating new book, Moreno investigates the deeply intertwined worlds of cutting-edge brain science, U.S....  Read More >>

SCIENCE, SOCIETY, and the SEARCH for LIFE in the UNIVERSE

SCIENCE, SOCIETY, and the SEARCH for LIFE in the UNIVERSE...

Author: The University of Arizona Press ,  The University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 9780816526130
Format: Paperback
$47.39

Provides an introduction to a fast growing scientific discipline - astrobiology. This field involves trying to understand...  Read More >>

On the Origin of Species: By Means of Natural Selection

On the Origin of Species: By Means of Natural Selection...

Author: Charles Darwin
ISBN: 9780486450063
Format: Paperback
$32.99

Presents Charles Darwin's treatise on evolution.  Read More >>

Punk Science – Inside the Mind of God

Punk Science – Inside the Mind of God

Author: Manjir Samanta–laughto
ISBN: 9781905047932
Format: Paperback
$33.61

Demonstrates that ideas from science explain phenomena that have been thought of as ""paranormal"". This book offers...  Read More >>

Candid Science Vi: More Conversations With Famous Scientists

Candid Science Vi: More Conversations With Famous Scientists...

Author: Istvan Hargittai (Budapest Univ Of Technology & Economics, Hungary) ,  Magdolna Hargittai (Budapest Univ Of Technology & Economics; Hungary)
ISBN: 9781860946943
Format: Paperback
$245.81

Narrates the conversations with famous scientists from the biomedical sciences, chemistry, and physics. There are...  Read More >>

Power, Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria and the meaning of life

Power, Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria and the meaning of...

Author: Nick Lane (Professor of Evolutionary Biochemistry, University College London)
ISBN: 9780199205646
Format: Paperback
$47.39

Mitochondria are tiny structures within all our cells, believed to have once evolved from bacteria living independent...  Read More >>

Candid Science Vi: More Conversations With Famous Scientists

Candid Science Vi: More Conversations With Famous Scientists...

Author: Istvan Hargittai (Budapest Univ Of Technology & Economics, Hungary) ,  Magdolna Hargittai (Budapest Univ Of Technology & Economics; Hungary)
ISBN: 9781860946936
Format: Hardback
$514.91

Narrates the conversations with famous scientists from the biomedical sciences, chemistry, and physics. There are...  Read More >>

It Ain't Necessarily So... Bro

It Ain't Necessarily So... Bro

Author: Karl Kruszelnicki
ISBN: 9780732280611
Format: Paperback
$27.99

Australia's favourite scientist answers more curly questions about life, the universe and everything. Questions...  Read More >>

Modern Mummies: The Preservation of the Human Body in the Twentieth Century

Modern Mummies: The Preservation of the Human Body in...

Author: Christine Quigley
ISBN: 9780786428519
Format: Paperback
$105.47

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The Seven Secrets of How to Think Like a Rocket Scientist

The Seven Secrets of How to Think Like a Rocket Scientist...

Author: James Longuski
ISBN: 9780387308760
Format: Hardback
$66.00

Explains the methods that rocket scientists use—expressed in a way that could be applied in everyday life. I just...  Read More >>

Dark Cosmos: In Search of Our Universe's Missing Mass and Energy

Dark Cosmos: In Search of Our Universe's Missing Mass...

Author: Dan Hooper
ISBN: 9780061130328
Format: Hardback
$65.87

The twentieth century was astonishing in all regards, shaking the foundations of practically every aspect of human...  Read More >>

Black Bodies and Quantum Cats: Tales of Pure Genius and Mad Science

Black Bodies and Quantum Cats: Tales of Pure Genius...

Author: Jennifer Ouellette
ISBN: 9781851684991
Format: Paperback
$25.00

Two parts physics to one part history and popular culture produces this delightful book, which makes the greatest...  Read More >>

The Making of the Fittest: DNA and the Ultimate Forensic Record of Evolution

The Making of the Fittest: DNA and the Ultimate Forensic...

Author: Sean B. Carroll
ISBN: 9780393061635
Format: Hardback
$68.51

DNA evidence not only solves crimes--in Sean Carroll's hands it will now end the evolution wars. of color.  Read More >>

How to Cut a Cake: And other mathematical conundrums

How to Cut a Cake: And other mathematical conundrums...

Author: Ian Stewart (Professor of Mathematics, The University of Warwick)
ISBN: 9780199205905
Format: Paperback
$31.95

Welcome back to Ian Stewart's magical world of mathematics! This is a strange world of never-ending chess games,...  Read More >>

The No-Nonsense Guide To Science

The No-Nonsense Guide To Science

Author: Jerry Ravetz
ISBN: 9781904456469
Format: Paperback
$22.99

New look at scientific history - from dogmatism to uncertainty, and the need for more public participation.  Read More >>

Taking the Piss: A Potted History of Pee

Taking the Piss: A Potted History of Pee

Author: Adam Hart-Davis ,  Emily Troscianko
ISBN: 9781845883515
Format: Hardback
$28.44

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Let There be Light: Modern Cosmology and Kabbalah, a New Conversation

Let There be Light: Modern Cosmology and Kabbalah, a...

Author: Howard Smith
ISBN: 9781577315483
Format: Paperback
$42.11

Explores how modern scientific understandings of the cosmos complement Judaism's ancient mystical theology, the...  Read More >>

Thin Ice

Thin Ice

Author: Mark Bowen
ISBN: 9780805081350
Format: Paperback
$52.80

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Why Size Matters: From Bacteria to Blue Whales

Why Size Matters: From Bacteria to Blue Whales

Author: John Tyler Bonner
ISBN: 9780691128504
Format: Hardback
$44.75

Offers a fresh perspective on the role of size in biology. This title explores the universal impact of being the...  Read More >>

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